Whenever I hear a good example

[Charles Doyle]

I wonder if the preference of "whenever" to "when" somehow parallels the replacement, usually always in undergraduate writing nowadays, of "in" with "within"?

--Charlie
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>Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 22:19:53 -0400
>From: James Harbeck <jharbeck at SYMPATICO.CA>
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>>"Sometimes whenever you slow down the car drives worse."

> I usually never use that turn of phrase myself. Actually, I don't think I've heard it before, but I like it.
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>("Usually always" is actually one of my favourites because of what it shows about how the users are conceptualizing "always" -- to mean "as a rule" rather "without exception." This seems to be a parallel sort of example.)
>
>James Harbeck.

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